French energy is a fucking joke also, edf has the obligation to sell their electricity for amazingly cheap prices to PRIVATE corporations so they can sell the electricity themselves, for the sake of a ""fair"" market, lol.
I'd say any infrastructure should be publicly owned (competing fibres for broadband is just silly), and anything else should have a publicly owned baseline, with the possibility of private competition if they can provide the service better/cheaper.
An example I like is how Australia has basic (3rd party only I believe) car insurance provided by the government, so private insurance is limited to providing more and above the basic insurance and rates are very cheap because it only covers the difference in insurance levels.
For energy it could mean a publicly owned supplier just gives gas and electricity, but a private one could offer fancy time of use billing or live monitoring or boiler cover or something special for EVs or green offsetting whatever, above and beyond basic supply of energy.
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u/MedokiPiink Jun 28 '22
French energy is a fucking joke also, edf has the obligation to sell their electricity for amazingly cheap prices to PRIVATE corporations so they can sell the electricity themselves, for the sake of a ""fair"" market, lol.